Sentences with phrase «rarer precipitation events»

Increases have also been reported for rarer precipitation events (1 in 50 year return period), but only a few regions have sufficient data to assess such trends reliably (see Figure TS.10).

Increases have also been reported for rarer precipitation events (1 in 50 year return period), but only a few regions have sufficient data to assess such trends reliably.

Not exact matches

The vast majority of this heavy precipitation came as rain, although in a few rare instances, major snowfalls also count toward these large events.

It's normally a very simplistic, frequentist type approach to an individual type of event, either chosen to be quite specifically regional or chosen to be even rarer than the actual climatic event itself (flooding instead of precipitation, cyclone landfall rather than cyclones overall, damage or cost,...).